Computer Science, IT, and Engineering Overview
Complete a Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering Internship in Australia or New Zealand
Location: All Cities, Australia and New Zealand
Through a computer science or engineering placement with AustraLearn, students can achieve vital experience in their field of study. Computer science internships can include gaining knowledge and skills in various operating systems, networking, HTML, web editing, data input and general hardware. Engineering placements will depend on the applicant’s area of specialization. Placements can be in electrical, mechanical, architectural, environmental and civil engineering.
Please see the current available placements in the navigation items on the left of this page. However, if none of those placements fit what you are looking for, just let us know and we will find one that does. During the application, you will write a cover letter that includes your goals and interests for your internship. Your AustraLearn Internship Coordinator will then work with you to match up your learning goals and interests with the best available internship placement.
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IT/Web Development
Website Development Internship
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The organization is a bipartite (employer/employee) industry training advisory board, recognized legislatively as the principal source of advice to the Training and Employment Board in relation to matters concerning vocational education and training for various industries. The intern will help with the redevelopment of the organization's website.
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Aerospace Engineering
Engineering Internship with International Aerospace Company
Location: Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
This is a specialist company focused on delivering pioneering technology and specialized components to the international space industry. Their aim is to provide innovative low cost solutions that will enable public access to space and develop a space industry within New Zealand. The tasks will be very varied. The site is currently preparing for a sounding rocket launch.
The tasks that will be assigned to the intern will be completely dependent on the natural ability they show during the period. The tasks are likely to include assisting in the static test fire of a hybrid rocket engine assist in the development of a flotation system for recovery of payloads, setting up tests for subsystems, and creating documentation for the preparation of launch.
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Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering Internship with Large Construction Company
Location: Melbourne, Australia
This internship is with a construction company building large commercial and residential buildings. This company currently has approximately 320 employees and they subcontract all of their work out for the actual construction. The main roles they offer within the business are Construction Manager, Foreman, Engineers, Project Managers and Administration support staff including finance.
The intern will conduct the work of a technical officer in an engineer role. This will include getting together drawings and a small amount of procurement.
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Structural Engineering
Structural and Architectual Engineering Internship with Versatile Engineering Consultancy
Location: Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
This company was established in 1990 to provide specialist consulting engineering services. They have offices throughout New Zealand and Australia. They work closely with their clients to deliver quality, cost effective and innovative solutions, in the following engineering disciplines:
- Power
- River, Marine and Civil Works
- Buildings and Structures
- Earthquake Engineering
- Fire Engineering
Interns will complete design studies, design reports, engineering designs, technical specifications, cost estimates, and other engineering design functions. Interns may also get experience in concept, preliminary and detailed design of architectural and or structural aspects of a variety of buildings, drafting using CAD, site inspections, construction monitoring and contract management.
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Architectural Engineering
Architecture Internship with Small Australian Firm
Location: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Recipients of several architectural awards, including two Master Builders Awards and The Menkens Award, this medium sized studio has a commitment to provide quality service that results in aesthetically pleasing, functional and cost effective projects. Their projects range from single residences to large multistory commercial and civic constructions, and their primary objectives are to create innovative projects that respond to the clients needs, respect the environment and are completed within time and budget constraints.
You will be the architectural assistant including the design and documentation of residential and commercial buildings. Yourwork will be mainly computer cad drawings in autocad and other packages as required. You will use the office library for the selection of materials, finishes, fittings and fixtures for inclusion in designs at team meetings and discussion with clients, consultants and building authorities. Gaming
Gaming Technology Internship
Location: Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
This internship is with a leading developer of engaging digital games and compelling entertainment for interactive marketing and mobile technology. Working with clients and their agencies, they are a creative and technical hothouse specializing in the quick turnaround of Flash games and animation for the web/interactive TV.
As an intern, you'll be a part of a game development platform for online and mobile games through the Adobe Games Suite. You'll help extend their game engine so that users can export multiplayer games. You'll also be involved in miscellaneous testing and development work (adding new modules, etc.). Interested applicants must be skilled action script and possibly perl/php/java for the multiplayer development work.
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Project Management
Information Technology Project Management Internship
Location: Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
This internship site was founded in February 2007. The directors recognized a market need for rapid idea implementation for e-Business ventures and, based on their experiences in the consulting field, created three fundamental concepts for evaluating ideas, implementing ideas and managing investment in ideas. The company focuses exclusively on ideas that can be realized online. The intern will be placed in the IT department and help manage IT projects.
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Industrial Engineering
Industrial Engineering Internship with World's Largest Automaker
Location: Palmerston North, North Island, New Zealand
Intern will work for the world's largest manufacturer of automobiles in unit and net sales. This company imports and wholesales vehicles sourced from Japan and Australia. In addition, they sell certified used cars from Japan. This company has recently established a Conversions & Accessories department to focus on growing the genuine accessories business and to expand the range of accessories. Vehicle accessorization is becoming increasingly popular as customers strive to personalize their vehicles to individual tastes. Many accessories are designed & developed utilizing a local supplier network, there is opportunity to add value to the development process by applying principles, quality systems & design innovation.
An intern will gain an overview of the operations in New Zealand, exposure to the product engineering and development process, exposure to suppliers and supplier improvement programs, and experience real life engineering and quality changes.
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Engineering - Various
Gain Experience Across Any Field of Engineering with this University Related Organization
Location: Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
This internship is with the an higher education institution in New Zealand's capital city. The school provides applied tertiary education to empower individuals to succeed in first or developing workplace roles in professions, para-professions, trades and technician areas; undertaking applied research that benefits industries and professions; and providing the community with knowledge and skills to assist social and economic development.
The internship site has a number of development projects with local companies in various sectors of engineering including, mechanical, electronic, software, and product design. The intern will work on one of these live commercially driven development projects and the duties will be relevant to the specific engineering sector. A majority of the projects have sustainability/environmental components.
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Industrial Engineering
Industrial Engineering Internship with Furniture Design Company
Location: Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
This is a design organization working mainly in the field of product design, interior architecture and furniture design. An internship would include conceptual design work, design development, prototype development, computer modeling, client meetings and more.
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Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering and Product Design Internship
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
This Wellington based design organization is focused on internally developing products and undertaking contract design work in the biodiversity and environmental management fields.
An internship within this organization would include concept development, design engineering, prototype development and fabrication, computer modeling, concept testing and evaluation, and more. The company is currently running major projects developing invasive predator control/eradication tools (humane animal traps) and interns must be prepared to work in this field.
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Internet IT
Internet Information Technology Internship
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
This internship offers the opportunity to work with a web development company in existence since 2003. They have also developed and support their own marketing company for which the intern will also assist with IT support. Their current contracts include a number of international companies, as well as Australian based businesses of all types and sizes. The main client base is in the international education and travel industries.
An intern working for either of the companies will be exposed to many areas of the online IT industry. This includes programming, user interface design, client support, system administration and online advertising to name a few.
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Web Development
Website Development Internship
Location: Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
The internship site is a web development company that specializes in developing aesthetically pleasing sites. In addition, the company focuses on complex and dynamic web applications. The web development intern will learn company styles and learn to work with existing company technologies.
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Web Design
Design Internship with Web Development Company
Location: Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
The internship site is a web development company that specializes in developing aesthetically pleasing sites. In addition, the company focuses on complex and dynamic web applications. The intern will gain experience in producing visual solutions to the communication needs of the company's clients and products, as well as solutions for in-house commercial and promotional requirements.
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IT Support Intern
Information Technology Suport Internship
Location: Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
The internship site is a web development company that specializes in developing aesthetically pleasing sites. In addition, the company focuses on complex and dynamic web applications. The IT support intern will provide email and phone assistance to the company's client base and undertake upload of web content to marketer sites and other sites as required.
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Web Design and IT- Marketing
Web Development and Marketing Internship for Large International Automaker
Location: Palmerston North, North Island, New Zealand
This automobile company has recently established a web strategy team within the Marketing Group. This group has been formed to focus on internet development. This is seen as a critical ingredient to the future marketing mix and will see a special focus over the next few years. A senior web-master with wide experience in both marketing and web design has been appointed to broaden the skills in this area.
Areas of focus for this internship include:
- Preparation of images for new model activity; this is for direct marketing, web site and general marketing material.
- Development of the web environment for retail activity hosting
- Development of web based activity reports at the distributor and dealer level
- Participation in pre-release testing programs
- Improved effectiveness of search engine and banner presence
Through completiong of this internship, the candidate will gain:
IT - CRM
Information Technology Internship for Huge International Automaker
Location: Palmerston North, New Zealand
Intern will work for the World's largest manufacture of automobiles in unit and net sales. This company imports and wholesales vehicles sourced from Japan and Australia. In addition, they sell certified used cars from Japan. The intern will help with the technical areas behind the Customer Relation Management System. This includes the data shared between the Customer Relations Management, Warranty, Service and Dealer data stores.
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IT Internship - Finance
Information technology Internship with Financial Planning Firm
Location: Sydney, Australia
Perpetual has existed for over 120 years providing financial services to the Australian community. There are over 1000 employees throughout Australia with the main head office in Sydney. There are a number of divisions in the company and this role is within the IT department.
This internship can be arranged in any of three areas:
1. Infrastructure Engineer - This is part the team responsible for the data center, server infrastructure, networks and phone system. The role in this team would be working with on of the Snr Infrastructure or Network Engineers on an existing project or day to day tasks. The day to day tasks could include building servers, provisioning storage monitoring or implementing new/existing networks.
2. Systems Engineer - This is part of the team that is responsible for operating the business critical applications. Responsibilities here involved Lotus Notes, SharePoint, Citrix (application delivery), WebMethods (BPM & SOA), RedDot and other internally built applications that run on IIS.
3. Database Administrator- This is part of the team that manages all of the company's critical database platforms. These includes SQL, Oracle and Sybase on AIX. The role here would shadow a Snr DBA on a project their working on or their day to day tasks. Depending on the area they want to focus on, I can then talk about some of the projects the we are currently embarking on.
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IT- Wireless Communication
Information Technology Internship with Student/Travel Wireless Communication Company
Location: Sydney and Perth, Australia
This company was set up in 2001, specifically to offer affordable wireless communication to travelers and international students studying in Australia. The communication options that it offers its core market segments include telephone and information technology solutions. They work with some of the big names in the communications industry including Vodafone and Skype. This internship program will allow for the opportunity to gain hands on experience in technical support for a large communication company.
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IT - Event Marketing
Information Technology Internship with Event Management Company
Location: Melbourne, Australia
This internship offers information technology experience with Australia’s premier cultural event management company. The team at PAN is respected and renowned within the event and entertainment industry and is supported by a wealth of local and international experience.
This internship role is responsible for developing and designing the organisation’s marketing collateral and print needs, web design and maintenance, and monitoring and maintaining IT systems. The ability to identify organizational IT needs is essential as is confidence in presenting commercially applicable web and graphic design capabilities. This strongly autonomous role comprises mainly Web and Graphics design, mixed with IT Helpdesk and hardware/software maintenance/upgrades as required.
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Custom Date Placements-Australia or New Zealand
Design an Internship to Meet Your Specific Needs
Location: Any city in Australia or New Zealand
Custom Date Internship placements are available for students who are unable to participate in one of our PDAC placements for any one of the following reasons:
- You do not meet the minimum GPA or college level requirements.
- You cannot attend the program during the pre-set PDAC dates.
- You need an internship of a duration other than 10 weeks.
AustraLearn Custom Date Internships are available in most every field of study. These one-of-a kind placements can accommodate a variety of start and end dates and program lengths of 6-26 weeks. In the required cover letter, applicants should detail the type of internship that they are seeking and their desired start and end dates. The success rate of these placements is very high, and students marvel at being able to intern with organizations that most closely mirror their desired experience.
In general, it is possible to start an AustraLearn Custom Date Internship at any time; however, applications must be completed at least four months prior to the desired internship start date. AustraLearn will try to match up these dates as closely as possible, but we suggest that the applicants have some flexibility.
Program fees vary with the actual finalized program length. Once you have submitted your completed application with all supporting documentation, including a specific cover letter, and have paid the initial deposit, our overseas staff members in Australia and New Zealand will find an internship placement to meet your needs. Your application MUST be received at least four months prior to your intended start date.
Most aspects of the custom date internship placements are the same as the PDAC placements. For instance, housing, on-site support services, and pre-departure services are similar across both types of programs. However, the custom designed internships do not include a Program Introduction because of the varying start dates for each placement. You will receive a welcome packet and an orientation phone call upon arrival in Australia or New Zealand. Additionally, custom designed internship placements do not carry credit from Chapman University; however, you can often arrange credit with your home university. You will want to speak with advisors at your home university about the processes and assessments they will require.
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Web Development and IT
Web Development and IT Internship with Creative Web Company
Location: Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
This web company has a special focus on the tourism industry. We maintain a suite of web applications including CMS, mail campaign manager, tourism database, and a new social media monitoring tool. They have 18 staff with 6 developers and 3 designers. Your internship will involve application testing, usability review, dHTML interface design and workflows, debugging and minor-feature implementation, review/develop user guides, minor support tasks, and implementation application preformance tweaks. Fees| Program Fees | $2265.00 | | Housing | | Without Meals | $2,900.00 |
Fee IncludesPDAC Internships- Internship Fee and Academic Credit Includes: in-country development of internship opportunities, personal placement/match of student with internship opportunity, delivery of the internship by the host site as stated in the position outline, student supervision by host site, PDAC academic consultation with supervision and assessment, 6 credits of upper division academic credit from Chapman University, and all pre-departure services including assistance with visas, airline tickets, orientation, health and safety, and family consultation (as needed). Mandatory On-Site Housing and Student Support Includes: Housing for duration of program (rent only), on-site 3-day group Program Introduction on arrival including airport reception, on-going 24-hour phone student support (as needed), cell phone (minutes purchased at an additional cost), premium ISIC card for travel/other insurance, and international health insurance. Meals will be billed at an extra cost when students are placed into accommodation that has a required or optional meal plan. Housing is arranged by the AustraLearn office and is not negotiable. Students are responsible for international travel, domestic travel to/from workplace sites, meals (where not paid in advance), immigration visa fees, and all personal costs for the period of the program as well as any extra travel while in country. Custom Designed Internships- Placement and Processing Fee - $2,702 Includes: on-site development of customized internship opportunities, personal placement/match of student with internship opportunity, delivery of the internship by the host site as stated in the position outline, student supervision by host site, customization of program dates and lengths, and all pre-departure service including assistance of visas, airline tickets, orientation, health and safety and family consultation (as needed). Mandatory On-Site Housing $1,668 USD for 6 weeks $250 for each additional week beyond 6 Fee SemesterThe fees above are valid for all internship programs commencing in or before October 2010. Fees are subject to change. Dates| All dates are provided by each university and are subject to change. AustraLearn will attempt to provide you with the most up-to-date information as we receive it. Be sure to confirm dates before finalizing any travel plans. | |
| June 1 - August 13, 2010 PDAC Internship - Summer | Application Deadline: February 26, 2010
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| Anticipated Departure | June 1, 2010 | | Start Date | June 1, 2010 | | End Date | August 13, 2010 | | Mid Semester Break #1 | - | | Mid Semester Break #2 | - |
| June 22 - September 03, 2010 PDAC Internship - Summer | Application Deadline: March 1, 2010
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| Anticipated Departure | June 22, 2010 | | Start Date | June 22, 2010 | | End Date | September 3, 2010 | | Mid Semester Break #1 | - | | Mid Semester Break #2 | - |
| June 22 - August 6, 2010 PDNC Internship - Summer | Application Deadline: March 1, 2010
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| Anticipated Departure | June 22, 2010 | | Start Date | June 22, 2010 | | End Date | August 6, 2010 | | Mid Semester Break #1 | - | | Mid Semester Break #2 | - |
| September 2010 PDAC (September 21 - December 3) - Fall | Application Deadline: June 18, 2010
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| Anticipated Departure | September 21, 2010 | | Start Date | September 21, 2010 | | End Date | December 3, 2010 | | Mid Semester Break #1 | - | | Mid Semester Break #2 | - |
| January 2011 PDAC (January 24 - April 8, 2011) - Spring | Application Deadline: October 1, 2010
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| Anticipated Departure | January 24, 2011 | | Start Date | January 24, 2011 | | End Date | April 8, 2011 | | Mid Semester Break #1 | - | | Mid Semester Break #2 | - |
| May 2011 PDAC (May 30 - August 12) - Summer | Application Deadline: February 1, 2011
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| Anticipated Departure | May 30, 2011 | | Start Date | May 30, 2011 | | End Date | August 12, 2011 | | Mid Semester Break #1 | - | | Mid Semester Break #2 | - |
| June 2011 PDAC (June 27 - September 9) - Summer | Application Deadline: March 1, 2011
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| Anticipated Departure | June 27, 2011 | | Start Date | June 27, 2011 | | End Date | September 9, 2011 | | Mid Semester Break #1 | - | | Mid Semester Break #2 | - |
| June 2011 PDNC (June 27 - August 12) - Summer | Application Deadline: March 1, 2011
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| Anticipated Departure | June 27, 2011 | | Start Date | June 27, 2011 | | End Date | August 12, 2011 | | Mid Semester Break #1 | - | | Mid Semester Break #2 | - |
| Custom Date - | Application Deadline: Varies
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| Anticipated Departure | Varies | | Start Date | Varies | | End Date | Varies | | Mid Semester Break #1 | - | | Mid Semester Break #2 | - |
Entry RequirementsPDAC Internships-
2.5 GPA and must be at least a college Junior (successful completion of two full years of university level education). Must also be between the ages of 18 and 30 at the program start date.
Custom Designed Internships-
Must be between the ages of 18 and 30 and have graduated from high school.
Required GPA: 2.50
AustraLearn Coordinator| Name: | Barbara West | | Title: | Manager, Internship Programs | | Department: | Internships in Australia and New Zealand |
BIO:
Barbara manages the enrollment services and program facilitation of the Internship Program.
Barbara graduated from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana with a BA in German and Geography. She studied for a year abroad in Giessen, Germany and has traveled through out the United States, Europe, Costa Rica, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Hong Kong.
Advice From The Coordinator:
International internships look incredibly impressive on your resume, especially when they’re the type of quality placement that AustraLearn provides. Interns get practical experience in their chosen field and are not subject to the busy work that many employers request when they know they have free labor. The integrity of the program is never compromised and students gain a wealth of cultural and professional knowledge; knowledge that is very marketable when they begin their career. Internships are an excellent option for students looking to get both work and international experience at the same time and at an affordable price. |
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